Typhon Accords TrekMU

Unwilling to completely purge potentially useful genes from their initially tiny gene pool, Romulans exiled the most undesirable societal elements to the most inhospitable and uninhabitable reaches of ch'Havran, adult and child alike. Those that survived proved to the Elements that their genes were worthy. Those that died, well, nobody missed them much.

The initial plan was to reintroduce to society those that had proven they still had good genes. However, power shifted and the plan became unpopular. These people were already rejected, why bring them back? It once again became more common to put to death those whom society had rejected.

But there were new inmate arrivals every so often. This helped the issue of inbreeding somewhat. Also helping was the rotation of the “more pure” Romulan overseers and guards, some of whom who would leave many children behind with their inmate mistresses when they went on to other duties.

Still, although none were old enough to remember, existence for most of these undesirables was not much different than it had been on Vulcan. Although dry, there was water. And the Vulcan foodstuffs that they had brought with them grew well in these areas. Growing food was backbreaking work, but it was relatively plentiful.

Eventually, it was discovered that these unwanted people were living on untold riches. The landowners grew wealthy overnight as they forced the undesirables to dig. Farms were destroyed as the miners delved deep into ch'Rihan for dilithium, rubies and even precious metals. Exposure to the radioactivity underground started to mutate the workers. Some died, others adapted to better handle the toxins.

Those who lived were hideously deformed and mutated, according to Romulan views. The Romulan government at that time realized that they had a potential disaster on their hands. It was one thing to work their brethren to death. It was quite another to turn him into a monster. That might not be so popular among the common person.

And so began a massive propaganda campaign. That it has been almost entirely forgotten speaks as to how successful it was. History books were rewritten and Romulan children were taught how the Rihannsu had found the Remans and lifted them up to civilization. Reman children were taken from their parents and learned the made-up history of their people. They were taught an entirely new religion. Archaeologists were tasked with faking proof that all of this was true. Anyone, Romulan or Reman, who suggested that the two people were once one were immediately executed. Records of prisoner and infant transportation to ch'Rihan were purged. Only by going back and reading the now-sealed original planetary surveys of ch'Rihan and ch'Havran would anyone realize that not a one mentioned this so-called native race.

Now Remans were driven further underground by their masters. In the forced search for riches, they were worked near to exhaustion. Romulan greed meant that only those who were pregnant or nursing were given any relief from the backbreaking labor. And, so, the Remans multiplied almost exponentially.

Those growing up in the tunnels were told that the surface was treacherous to the point of being deadly. Better, they learned, to be alive underground than dead on the surface. But even those with unwavering faith in the Romulan explanations desired something better. For hundreds of years, the Remans endured this oppression. They watched their masters, waiting for an opportunity.

That opportunity came during the Dominion War. While many half-ignorant Remans were used as canon fodder for the Dominion, some survived and even won battle after battle. One of these was the discarded but charismatic clone of Captain Jean Luc Picard, known as Shinzon. Having been raised by Remans, he encouraged his fellow Remans to disappear under the fog of war. They took over a secret Tal'Shiar base on Goloroth and, with it, the thalaron generator it contained.

Shinzon used this generator to wipe out nearly all of the Romulan Senate, with the help of co-conspirator Senator Tel'aura. In the process of attempting to then attack Earth with the device, Shinzon and many of his Reman associates were destroyed.

Although some Remans stayed loyal to Shinzon after his death and others wanted nothing to do with his legacy, none of them wanted to remain Romulan subjects. Most Remans requested the assistance of the Klingon Empire in founding a new homeworld.